There was a bug in the code that uploads match results, so I think it only lists into the semifinals.
Congratulations to the winners of the Long Island Regional, Teams 467, 173, and 28!!! Great job, guys.
The runners up were 195, 224, and 545 - the alliance that beat our alliance
It was a great competition, and things really started to get interesting as time went on. Ball scoring become vital here, as opposed to a lot of what I saw at KSC and VCU. I have no idea what happened at the other two regionals this weekend.
The Regional Chairmanās Award was given to team 311 - The Red Jammers, from East Islip, NY. Congratulations!!!
On a personal note, 810 won the highest seeded rookie award!!! Woooohoo. Now that weāve got some practice, weāre looking forward to another good time at NYC next week.
hey, iām new to the forum. iām the driver from team #271. we lost in the semifinals today when an enemy robot sent there graber into our bot and pulled wires out of motors, cut wires for the pneunmatics and some other things that made our robot paralysed, excpet for normal driving funtions on only 3 of our 4 drive motors. we were alied with 157 and 417, and lost to 224, 195, and 545.
we held the high score of 123 for a while. we set it our first match out (match #6 i think) and it was beaten in match # sixty somthing with 129.
please let me know what you think about team 271ās robot.
*Originally posted by fast frank *
[Bplease let me know what you think about team 271ās robot. [/b]
It was pretty good - I liked the way you loaded your robot from the player station, though it seemed to get stuck and not release the balls a couple of times. Hopefully you guys can fix that before the next competition. Having the ability to grab two goals also helped out a lot.
Good luck with the rest of the season, and represent the South Shore.
Hey. heyā¦ now donāt forget the Rookie All-Stars, 871!!
We were doing really well in the beginning until our motor clip broke. It sucks, but whadaya gonna do?? What sucks even more is that when I figure out where we WOULD be if that didnt happen is 8th seed with an Avg QP of 60.67 ā¦ Still trying to figure out why we didnt get picked Any comments on our robot and our team are wanted and gladly welcomed. What was good? bad? We want to know
Ah wellā¦ But now that we got in so much experience, and whenever we had a problem we worked so well together, and we were always there when another team needed help (you would see a swarm of blue and gold move around like locusts )ā¦ anyway, I really wish now that we were going to more events. I feel like now that we actually know EXACTLY what to do, we would do so much better. But unfortunately, we were seriously underfunded and ran out of money just as we finished up with the actual building. And Iām a senior, so I dont get to come back next year either ::sigh::
Kyle, too bad one of your motors got fried, i smelt it when we came out in the match after yours.
yea, when the balls didnāt drop, we had a leak in our pneumatics, or the threads on the piston got stuck. we filed off the threads and fixed the pneumatics, it works fine now.
871, you robot looked impressive with the mirror like polishing. i didnāt get to see it on the field because i was in the pits the whole time, but from what i saw, it looked like a strong robot.
iām the arm operator for team 173. Yes the kid with the broken arm. HAHA. Does anyone have pictures of our robot? We need to make a info sheet on our awesome robot(hehe) and i need pics
West Islip did great for a rookie team! You guys have no reason to hang your heads. Based on what I saw I think that your team will be a force to be reckoned with in the future.
Congratulations on your Rookie All-Star Award!
I donāt know why you didnāt get picked. I do know that there were still a few good 'bots on the sidelines when the smoke cleared from the alliance picking.
Unfortunately team 311ās 'bot was on the sidelines after the 1st round of eliminations after the smoke cleared from one of our motorsā¦but thatās another story.
Oh well, on to Florida. Now where did I put those spare drill motors, hmmmmā¦
First off, its about time I start posting again, itās no fun to just read CD twice a dayā¦
Secondly, WOW, LI was so much fun. Gotta thank 28 for picking us, I personally think you made a great choice , and 467 made us a strong alliance.
Great job to 195, 224, and 545. You guys made it a competitive finals.
FYI: Our arm is 3x5 aluminum extrusion, driven by the third drill motor (and a large transmission). The wrist is two globe motors.
Joystick up: arm up, Joystick down: arm down, Left: basket down, Right, basket upā¦real simple.
Woooohoooooooo! Sorry, still just slightly buzzed about LI.
Thanks a ton to 28 and 467. Hope to get a chance to work again with you in the future. Feel up for a repeat at New Haven, 467?
Also, congrats to 195, 224, and 545. You had half our crew biting their nails a lot (not kidding). Not looking forward to any rematchesā¦
Finally, the thing that suprised me the most about SBPLI was how good some of the rookies were. 810, 870, and 871 particularly in my book were excellent teams. I donāt mean purely their robots; the team members themselves seemed like seasoned veterans. They were truly a pleasure to work with (or a challenge to work against).
Hahahā¦ Ok Iām startin to get over that %%%% drill motor clipā¦ But it still hangs over my head :rolleyes:
Anyway, over all my āpissed-offnessā (ok made up word ) I totally forgot to congratulate the other teams.
Congratulations to:
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173- Excellent robot guys. We saw you as one of the best out there since the very first day of practice. You guys deserved to win, and if I may say so, almost did it all on your own
311- East Islip/West Islip, well we definitely have a long history without FIRST, and now we are āenemiesā on the robotic playing field. After attending the competition for the past few years, EI has definitely grown dramatically. We worked this year with the first engineer you guys had from AIL - Chris Foley, whoās son is a senior at WI. Anyway, hopefully the two Islips will continue in years to come as both competitors and alliances. Hope you guys remember our tug of war over the goal and recognize us as a strong (literally) rookie team. Congratulations on your Chairmans award, and you guys definitely had one of the best bots out there (we actually had that same exact idea for a bot but decided against it as rookies without a full machine shop or engineering sponsor ) I think everyone (at least we did), viewed you guys as the āArch-enemyā to destroy and had fun competing with ya. Oh yeaā¦ and thanks for allowing everyone to cheer at the smoke, hehā¦ I dont know, you must have some serious design flaw for that to keep happening. Oh, and thanks for letting us use your ban saw a few times
358- Excellent defender! Although we voted for you for play of the day, it wasnt for your āmousetrap.ā It was for our first match back after being disabled when you guys kept 224 in check- robot in our zone, but goal with balls into their zone for a score of 36-34, that was awesome!
467- Well you guys won tooā¦ I dont think we really had too much interaction with you guys, except that we had the same colored shirts and I kept confusing your team members with ours at a quick glance
810- Highest rookie seed, good job!! I think it was definitely a battle between the two of us for that spot And from what I saw, you guys and traction and speed, but not as much torque and power, so we held our ground against you guys in our one match, heh. Good job and congrats on doing well
870- Well you guys did so much fundraising and got so many sponsors, and we share the Rookie All Star with you guys for two different aspects of the competition. We had a lot of fun with you guys right next to us in the pits, Iām sure you guys appreciated all our help Although we were kinda angry you got picked over us in the elim rounds, we got over it, and know next year to have our team on the sidelines cheering for us Good luck next year and be seeing you in the pits again.
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Again, congratulations to all on a job well done. Now I just hope I go to a college next year that participates in FIRST and comes down to the LI regional
I can confirm that the light fog odiforious aroma wafting over the playing field was that of a drill motor which had met an untimely death in itās efforts.
It didnāt really affect the match outcome though as we were already in position and the motor went with about :15 left on the clock.
If we had won and continued it wouldāve been fine as we always keep pre-wired spare motors handy (literally in my pocket) and can change one out in less than 5 minutes if necessary.
Oh well, such is life! Remember that for everyone that wins there are ALWAYS many, many others that made the effort.
If you donāt make the effort then you will never know what you can accomplish.
Team #311 is off to Florida to see what we can do. I know that pretty much everyone on our team is still reeling from winning the Chairmans Award so whatever happens at Nats we look forward to the competition.
Some might call the RedJammers smoke screen a ādesign flawā (Iāll let you say it this time :D)
Others might call it the weak link in the chain.
Actually whatās occurring is that we are (as is everyone else) pushing the design limits of everything on the machine.
Needless to say we are already working on what changes we need to make once we arrive in Florida at the Natās
You guys are fortunate to have Chris, he is an excellent engineer and mentor!
As far as the tug of warā¦we remember it too! Remember which 'bot ended up with the goal in the end? hint: I think it had a 311 on the side
Like I said before I think you guys are going to do well in the future. We will let you guys know when team 311 has workshops during the āoff seasonā this way we can all work together and learn together too!
Oh, and you can use our bandsaw anytimeā¦
One more thing just to clarify. We actually only have one mechanical engineer working on the robot that is associated with a sponsor. The rest of us are either parents or former students with engineering backgrounds who volunteer their time because we believe strongly in the program. We also insist that the students do at least 80% of the work. As an example, every inch of the welding on this years chassis was done by a group of 3 students.
In my case my son graduated last year and now he competes with team 190 from WPI and Mass Academy. Boy I really hope we end up in the same division at the Nationals and draw each other as alliance partners in at least one qualifying match.
Heh, LOL, yea we had to let go of the goal or be DQed, our driver and gripper did the right thing. I dont know if you noticed, but we put some good tears in the carpet over there Otherwise we were pulling (or were we pushing, I dont remember, I think we mustāve been pushing) you and the goal over
And yea, we had at least 80% student workā¦at least. It had to be more like 90 though. Unfortunately, we didnt even have a real welder this year (sorta a makeshift tig welder with leaks in the hose). It was really tough to weld, so one teacher did most of the welding, always with at least one student watching/helping/learning. Welds for all prototypes were done by students, however.
And WPI is one of the schools that I am definitely considering (for the simple reason that they compete in FIRST and supposedly have a really good Computer/Electrical engineering program). I would love to participate in FIRST in college and come to the LI Regional against my former West Islip team But then again I need to consider schools like Cornell and Rensselaer that I also got accepted to, but unfortunately I dont think either one participates in FIRST. Ah well, itās a really tough decision.
If you are seriously considering WPI then let me know and I will connect you to my son. This way if you would like to get some āinside infoā it might help you to make a decision. He was also accepted at and considering RPI and RIT but he liked WPI because of their schedule (4 quarters) and because of their FIRST program. Go to the EIRobotics.com web site and link to my E-mail in the contacts area. Iāll be more than happy to help you out with any info.
If you need any help with recruiting for WPI Brianā¦just let me or coll or even your best bud Timmy know, and weāll get you whatever information you needā¦WPI is a really good engineering school and while the 4 quarters is really cool, its a lot of work. One of the best aspects of the school however is their global program. I for one am going to Venice over the summer to work at the project center there for the months of June and Julyā¦It looks very good for potential employers later on in life.
gotta say congrats and great job to everyone who competed at SBPLI this weekend. Some great matches. Also special WOW goes to team 56. We had absolutely no clue you could grab 2 like that, and so fast for a lifter. At nationals we may be spending a little more time around your pit : ) Anyway is it legal to have liquid nitrogen to cool your motors between elimination matches? Cause I think I could swipe some from BNL for team 311. haha sorry just had to get my potshot in. alright I really have to go, cause I have a paper due in 5 hours
Hey Sparky,
Thanx very much. We tried to show that off that we could grab 2 goals like that in practice. In fact we did at least 1 time each practice round. Make sure everyone scouts practice rounds. In the end 496ās misfortune of not watching us grab 2 in the practice round came and kicked them in the butt, but very nice robot adn a nice battle to get to the semiās see you in Florida.
yeah to tell you the truth, around the time that we should have been scouting we were sitting on our hands. seriously we had no thouts at all of being in the top. we were just shooting to get picked into the semis. we were totally shocked to find out we were in first.
Any comments on our robot and our team are wanted and gladly welcomed. What was good? bad? We want to know 
)ā¦ anyway, I really wish now that we were going to more events. I feel like now that we actually know EXACTLY what to do, we would do so much better. But unfortunately, we were seriously underfunded and ran out of money just as we finished up with the actual building. And Iām a senior, so I dont get to come back next year either 
, and 467 made us a strong alliance.
Although we were kinda angry you got picked over us in the elim rounds, we got over it, and know next year to have our team on the sidelines cheering for us